SNAT kills local stuff?

["David Busby" <busby@xxxxxxxx>]

List,
    Perhaps I'm missing something, when I enable SNAT it makes it so I can't
resolve names anymore on my machine or make outbound connections it seems.

My Setup:
[ Local (10./24) ] <-> [ netfilter ] <-> [ Internet ]

So I setup iptables like this:
root@xxxxxx:/etc# iptables -t filter -L
Chain INPUT (policy DROP)
target     prot opt source               destination
ACCEPT     all  --  anywhere             anywhere           state
RELATED,ESTABLISHED
ACCEPT     tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere           tcp dpt:ssh
ACCEPT     tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere           tcp dpt:domain
ACCEPT     udp  --  anywhere             anywhere           udp dpt:domain
LOG        all  --  anywhere             anywhere           LOG level
warning

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination
root@xxxxxx:/etc

Everything is OK, Lan can resolve names and such.

Now I add:
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth1 -j SNAT --to $EXTERNAL_IP
And it all works, this command:
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s 10.0.0.0/24 -j SNAT --to $EXTERNAL_IP
Doesn't work. The LAN is fine, but the localbox cannot connect out.
What is so different about those two commands?

David Busby
Systems Engineer
busby@xxxxxxxx